Posted on 08/07/2005 12:57:49 PM PDT by lizol
The murder of American journalist July 20, 2005
A year ago, the crusading American journalist Paul Klebnikov was murdered outside his office in Moscow, shot dead in a premeditated killing. The questions of who murdered him and why remain disputed, and show how far Russia remains from guaranteeing liberties for prominent foreign reporters, to say nothing of its own citizens. Mr. Klebnikov was in no small way the leading edge of free and open inquiry by foreign journalists in Russia, and quite possibly by anyone there. Renowned for his toughness, his knowledge of Russian business and politics and his singular passion for the country, Mr. Klebnikov authored groundbreaking books including "Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berezovsky and the Looting of Russia" and "Conversation with a Barbarian," a series of interviews with the Chechen separatist Khozh-Akhmed Nukhayev. He had just launched Forbes magazine's Russian edition in April 2004, intending to establish Forbes as the leading expositor of corruption and crime in Russian politics and business. But apparently his work hit a nerve. On the evening of July 9, as Mr. Klebnikov exited Forbes' Moscow offices, gunmen shot him several times from a car with tinted windows. After a series of mishaps, including a jammed hospital elevator that prevented him from receiving emergency surgery, Mr. Klebnikov died. Contract killings had reached an all-time post-Soviet high that summer, government statistics later showed. Twelve journalists have been murdered in Russia since Vladimir Putin took office. Mr. Klebnikov was the first and only American among them.
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And you're saying we should apologize Russia for anything???
WHY DID BUSH LET THIS HAPPEN??? DOESN'T HE CARE??!!
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There was a story on line the other day that this journalist may have been murdered for having a 'relationship' with his interpreter.
Please excuse my comments. I thought this was in relation to the journalist killed in Basra, Iraq.
Stupid provacative statement. If the Russian government made him stop, you could say that. That he was murdered by someone about whom he wrote (and he exposed a lot of top oligarchs) is not the same thing. Plenty of journalists have been killed here in the US by the mafia and others, does this mean the US government is behind it? Only if you're a leftist that hates Bush.
The evidence points to a combination of Chechen gangsters and Boris Berezovsky.
Oh, I never said you did. I was commenting on the title and the writing style of the article itself.
Well the journalist, though he had US citizenship was actually ethnically Russian, so it's hardly racism. On the other hand, he slammed the toes of all the big oligarches so its no surprise one of those "upstanding" businessmen (businessmen my arse) did him in.
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